Atrocities in Ethiopia: Daily Brief
More evidence of atrocity crimes in Ethiopia; brutal attack on village by Cameroon's soldiers; gunmen abduct hundreds of girls from a school in Nigeria; international attention on South Sudan; Azerbaijan's unlawful attacks on medical facilities; a bad signal from the UK Supreme Court; one headline captures years of tragic EU failure on refugee rights; what to expect from Kyrgyzstan's new president; Yemen's desperate humanitarian situation; excessive use of force in Iran; a surprising admission in the Philippines; a bit of good news from Malaysia; Bangladesh writer dies in jail; racial justice in the US is not achievable without repair; and will today be the day the US releases its report on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in a Saudi consulate?
A new report from Amnesty International details atrocities by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in the city of Axum, Ethiopia.
Violations of the laws of war have been piling up. Previously, Ethiopian federal forces carried out apparently indiscriminate shelling of urban areas in the Tigray region, increasing international calls to halt the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas.
As the humanitarian situation in Tigray worsens...
Cameroonian soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, arrested 35 men, and killed one man, in an attack on the village of Ebam in the South-West region last year, according to newly revealed findings.
Gunmen have abducted hundreds girls from a school in Zamfara, Nigeria.
Next month, the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan will come up for renewal. Looking at recent developments, it’s clear the UN Human Rights Council should renew the commission’s mandate in full.
Three unlawful attacks on medical facilities by Azerbaijani forces during the six-week armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh have come to light in recent Human Rights Watch research in the region.
There's bad news from the UK Supreme Court, which has sided with the government in not allowing UK-born Shamima Begum to come home to defend herself against the government's revocation of her citizenship.
One headline has captured years of tragic EU failure on refugee rights...
Kyrgyzstan has a new president. Will the country take a new direction towards supporting human rights?
The humanitarian situation in Yemen has gone from bad to worse to appalling to this...
Iranian authorities should transparently investigate alleged government security forces’ use of excessive force in Sistan and Baluchistan province on February 22, Human Rights Watch said today. At least 10 Baluchi people were killed in the Saravan border area near Pakistan, local activists said.
The Philippine Department of Justice has surprisingly admitted police culpability in thousands of “drug war” killings.
Malaysia’s Federal Court on February 25 ruled that a state law banning consensual same-sex conduct was unconstitutional. It's good news, but just one small step on a long road ahead.
A wrongly jailed writer in Bangladesh has died in detention.
A reminder about the path to racial justice in the US...
And finally, will the US finally release its intelligence report on the 2018 brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi agents in a Saudi consulate?